I can't help but think this article could have used some more polishing. The stats say that there are 101 boats named "Freedom", but if you enter "Freedom" in the search, it shows 48 boats with names including "Freedom", of which however only one is called just "Freedom". That doesn't really add up?!
Also, clicking "Movie/TV" yields a paltry 22 boats, which I think is far too few. E.g. the boat called "USS Enterprise" isn't included. Ok, it could be named after the 1958 aircraft carrier, but I would say the odds are far greater that it was named after the Starfleet ships. Then again, I can understand why "Starlight Express" is included under "Music", but why also all other boats with names containing the word "Starlight"?!
daemonologist 1 hours ago [-]
On the first point, I think it's a search of boat names, not boats - they're deduplicated.
rob74 1 hours ago [-]
Sure, but if you click on the boat called "Freedom", it shows you the data of one specific boat, not "there are X boats with this name". So I still think it's inconsistent...
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squigz 1 hours ago [-]
Err, the Enterprise has been a ship name for a few hundred years, quite a bit before Star Trek was ever conceived.
I've always thought Unsinkable II would be a good boat name
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kmoser 54 minutes ago [-]
How about Titanic II?
stinkbeetle 2 hours ago [-]
People think lots of things are good boat names. There's no reason there couldn't have more than one Unsinkable that hadn't sunk, and most boats aren't retired by sinking, so Unsinkable II would fit right in.
gilleain 1 hours ago [-]
What about "Really Actually Unsinkable 9"?
sorokod 52 minutes ago [-]
Following in the footsteps of "The Hand of God 137"
arethuza 7 minutes ago [-]
If I buy a yacht I'd name it "The Ends of Invention" - have been keeping that name handy for almost 40 years since I read CP in a oner in May 1988.
rrr_oh_man 1 hours ago [-]
You're missing the "You're absolutely right" prefix
It'd be awesome if there was enough metadata to link across to an AIS aggregator/map like https://www.marinetraffic.com/
mellosouls 2 hours ago [-]
Snap!
Skidaddle 59 minutes ago [-]
It really needs a picture of each boat!
brk 2 hours ago [-]
It had my boat name, which so far I haven't seen duplicated, and isn't particularly specific to anything that would preclude someone else from using it.
Aeroi 2 hours ago [-]
love this, i'm a boat captain and collect images of terrible boat names on my phone. people are insane, always baffles me what they will name a boat.
Uncle_Brumpus 1 hours ago [-]
I think the 2 funniest I found here are "TT Firebird Ribeye" which just sounds like an incredibly specific steakhouse menu item, and "Privacy II", which I just think is a bit on the funny-ironic side that we're all now looking at their vessel data and violating their privacy.
warmwaffles 38 minutes ago [-]
Someone needs to take "Unsinkable II"
hbs18 2 hours ago [-]
Can't believe there's only one Stugots
wxw 52 minutes ago [-]
The top 3 names being
> Freedom
> Liberty
> Serenity
Reads like a state motto
mellosouls 2 hours ago [-]
Disappointed to see no mention of Boaty McBoatface.
Can't be that often boat naming becomes headlines.
Probably because the article only uses data from the US, so it would be a bit strange if it included the name of a British AUV. Or are you wondering why no one in the US liked that story enough to name their own boat Boaty McBoatface? There is a Boaty Boat, so that's something...
mh2266 1 hours ago [-]
Bust Out Another Thousand
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Also, clicking "Movie/TV" yields a paltry 22 boats, which I think is far too few. E.g. the boat called "USS Enterprise" isn't included. Ok, it could be named after the 1958 aircraft carrier, but I would say the odds are far greater that it was named after the Starfleet ships. Then again, I can understand why "Starlight Express" is included under "Music", but why also all other boats with names containing the word "Starlight"?!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Enterprise
7% of boat owners earning under $25k is of course very different from 7% of people earning under $25k owning a boat.
I'd love to see an actual chart of boat ownership at income levels, it would read quite differently I'm sure.
My boat was not among them sadly as I was serious about mine.
Fishizzle, Boat Float, Unsinkable II, Knot for Sail, etc.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/sd97i4/read_dinghy_n...
It'd be awesome if there was enough metadata to link across to an AIS aggregator/map like https://www.marinetraffic.com/
> Freedom
> Liberty
> Serenity
Reads like a state motto
Can't be that often boat naming becomes headlines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface